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Show HN: Rv, a Package Manager for R

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76 points Keats | 1 comments | 16 May 25 15:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.221s | source

We have been building a package manager for R inspired by Cargo in Rust. The main idea behind rv is to be explicit about the R version in use as well as declaring which dependencies are used in a rproject.toml file for a given project. There's no renv::snapshot equivalent, everything needs to be declared up front, the config file (and resulting lockfile) is the source of truth. This avoids issue where renv might miss information about the installation and is also easy to tweak some packages, eg install one from source and install suggests from another.

If you have used Cargo/npm/any Python package manager/etc, it will be very familiar.

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j_bum ◴[17 May 25 14:54 UTC] No.44014766[source]▶
Looks interesting, I’m excited to give it a try.

Is there any plan to have it create a manifest (like renv.lock) that can be used directly with the posit publishing system?

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1. arbutus8 ◴[17 May 25 15:56 UTC] No.44015188[source]▶
Yes, that's a feature we are considering adding